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Angela Bassett
Angela Bassett
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Cinematic and Comics

Secret Wars, Comics: Ramonda wakes after the defeat of the People and later recovers enough to walk with a cane.

Cinematic

Queen of Wakanda, widow of T'Chaka and mother of T'Challa and Shuri. She is driven into Jabariland by Killmonger and helps revive T'Challa. After the Snap she leads Wakanda alone, then takes the throne again when T'Challa dies in 2024. Namor's demands over Vibranium lead to war, and she drowns in 2025 saving Riri Williams during the attack on Birnin Zana.

Comics

South African-born woman who came to Wakanda, became T'Chaka's wife and queen, mother of Shuri, and surrogate mother to T'Challa. She was abducted and held by a white supremacist before being freed, later feigned a deal with a coup leader to feed T'Challa information, and was gravely hurt in a bombing of the Golden City.

Timeline 12 events

  1. Modern · Comics: Ramonda, abducted years earlier by Anton Pretorius, is freed by T'Challa and returns to Wakanda as Queen Mother.
  2. Modern · Comics: Ramonda strikes a bargain with the coup leader Achebe, secretly a ruse to pass information to T'Challa.
  3. Modern · Comics: Ramonda gives birth to Princess Shuri.
  4. Secret Wars · Comics: A suicide-bomb attack on the Golden City leaves Ramonda gravely injured and in a coma.
  5. Secret Wars · Comics: Ramonda wakes after the defeat of the People and later recovers enough to walk with a cane.
  6. Fresh Start · Comics: Ramonda's arrival in Wakanda, marriage to T'Chaka and bond with T'Challa are told in a retrospective.
  7. 2018 · Cinematic: Survives the Snap but loses her son and daughter, and leads Wakanda for the next five years.
  8. 2023 · Cinematic: Reunited with T'Challa and Shuri at the Citadel after the Blip.
  9. 2024 · Cinematic: Is at T'Challa's side when he dies of illness, and takes the throne as queen.
  10. 2025 · Cinematic: A year after T'Challa's death she faces Namor at the river, who demands the scientist behind the Vibranium Detector.
  11. 2025 · Cinematic: Travels to Haiti to recruit Nakia to rescue Shuri, and pulls her and Riri Williams from the sea in a Royal Talon Fighter.
  12. 2025 · Cinematic: Dies by drowning in Birnin Zana during Namor's attack after saving Riri Williams.

allied with

Shuri, Okoye, Nakia, T'Chaka, Everett Ross, Ironheart

enemy of

Namor

parent of

Shuri

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Last checked 21 Oct 2026